May
31
CCIE Needs its Voice Back over @ ucguerrilla’s blog
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I am sure most people have heard about Cisco’s decision to retire the CCIE Voice, and move forward with the CCIE Collaboration. Here is a good read on it from UCGuerrilla over on his site.
May 29, 2013 marks the day that Cisco announced the new CCIE Collaboration track. For many existing voice CCIEs, this was a welcome change to the blue print as it lined up with what we really do. We were excited about the blue print change and then we read the catch:
May
21
Cisco Live Orlando
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Looking forward to heading back to Cisco Live this year. Haven’t been back since I was there last in 2009. Something always seemed to come up the last few years to keep me away. I am excited to be attending this year since it is in Orlando. Not sure how I am going to feel about that Orlando weather though. Got a couple of Don Slice’s EIGRP sessions scheduled. If you use EIGRP in your enterprise network, or prepping for the R&S lab they are very informative.
May
18
INE’s Cisco Live 2013 Party at the Hard Rock Cafe
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INE is giving away a Harley this year at their Cisco Live party!
I would like to thank the over 600 people who RSVP’d for INE’s 2013 Party at the Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando during Cisco Live. Registration is closed as of today for our party but I wanted to be the first to let everyone know about the grand prize giveaway we are doing. On top of the standard giveaway prizes (iPads, MacBook Airs, AAP Memberships, Bootcamps, etc) we are giving away a Harley Davidson 2013 XL 1200X Forty-Eight to a lucky winner during our party.
Nov
29
INE Expanding – Hiring Support Engineers – US and International
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New over at INE’s Blog:
As everyone knows INE has made INC 5000?s list of fastest growing educational companies for two years running and we’re having our best year ever by roughly 30% over our 2011 numbers. With this growth INE is once again expanding. Starting mid-January 2013 INE will have a new office in RTP, NC. The office in RTP will be for sales and support so that means sales will be available starting from 6am EST (-5 GMT) in January. We’re also doubling the size of our datacenter in Reno, NV in January. We’ve signed the lease on the building next to our current Reno datacenter and are close to finalizing the RTP sales/support location. We’re looking for a mid-level rack support engineer for the RTP office location and for Reno. Hours would be from 6am to 2pm Monday through Friday for RTP and 9am to 5pm Monday through Friday for Reno. For the Reno location I’m willing to relocate the right candidate and their family within the US. These will be fulltime permanent positions.
Aug
17
Status Update 08.17.2012
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It has been quite sometime since I wrote a status update, and can’t believe we are almost into September. My studies pretty much stopped cold this past May. My wife, and myself both lost our father’s due to cardiac arrest within two months of each other. Both our dad’s were in their early 60′s, and had clean bill’s of health. So both are families are still really in shock. We lost my dad just a little over a month ago so it is still fresh in my mind.
With all that being said it has been impossible to dive into another CCIE track at the moment. Still not sure if SP, or Security will be the way forward for me. I am looking forward to seeing how INE, and IPexpert are going to go about updating their security material.
Jun
12
Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Admin Cookbook
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Disclaimer: I received a copy of Tanner’s book for free and thought I would give a quick review on it.
I started reading through the book while we are looking at alternatives for our current voip systems here at work. I though the book was a really good read. The book is concise, and to the point. Which is something I can appreciate when I am just looking for instructions to add “custom media files for Music On Hold” for example. Keep in mind the book is written to be a quick reference for common problems, and implementations. You aren’t going to find hundreds of pages of telephony background of theory. Which for me is a good thing…
Jun
5
CCIE Security 4.0 Refresh Information Released
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I thought Cisco would wait until Cisco Live to do the announcement, but looks like they wanted to give everyone time to come up with some questions. I am curious if any of the hardware changes are going to slow down any of the training vendors in updating their material? The additional hardware seems to remove any option of a home lab unless you are just burning piles of money in your spare time already 
The additions of the wireless controller, and IP phone is interesting.
This is what I have been honestly waiting for to see if taking the 3.0 written exam is worth it, or to just wait for the 4.0 version to go live.
Cisco’s CCIE Security Syllabus
Also Anthony Sequeira has a more detailed post on IPexpert’s blog here
May
16
The INE 2012 Scholarship
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INE’s scholarship is back again.
Through the years Brian Dennis, CCIE #2210 (Routing & Switching, ISP Dial, Security, Service Provider, Voice) and Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593 (Routing & Switching, Service Provider, Security) have been devoted to revolutionizing the way CCIE Lab training is approached. Since 2004 their vision of success for CCIEs has changed the market and helped shape where it stands today. From inventing new ways to tackle technologies, to their famous CCIE Lab Workbooks, and now the highly sought after 10-Day Bootcamp, “The Brians” and INE continue to help networking professionals around the world achieve their own CCIE certification.
As part of Brian Dennis’ and Brian McGahan’s ongoing commitment to the CCIE community, INE is pleased to announce the INE 2012 Scholarship.
For CCIE Routing & Switching applicants, we will be choosing a scholarship recipient per region (Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, North America (US/Mexico), Oceanic (Australia) and South America) from the applicant pool. For those interested in CCIE Voice Training, we will be choosing two recipients from around the world. INE is providing a total of 10 CCIE Training Scholarships valued at $120,000!
Mar
7
CCIE SPv3 Workbook Preview over @ INE
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Good news for all you SP guys that were waiting for INE’s updated workbooks and rack rentals to come out. Looks like that should happen by the end of this month.
Also Narbik is supposed to release his SPv3 workbooks as well next month.
I’ve been getting a lot of emails recently asking when our updated CCIE Service Provider Version 3.0 Workbooks and Rack Rentals are going to be released. And the answer is… soon
Jan
13
Introducing IPexpert’s New IPv4/IPv6 Multicast Operation and Troubleshooting Guide
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New tech focused troubleshooting workbooks in the works over at IPexpert
IPexpert is thrilled to introduce the first installment in our NEW Protocol Operation and Troubleshooting Series, IPexpert’s IPv4/IPv6 Multicast Operation and Troubleshooting. This series was designed around CCIE student feedback on specific protocols and technologies that they feel they struggled with most when preparing for the CCIE Lab exam. IPexpert’s IPv4/IPv6 Multicast Operation and Troubleshooting dives deep into the specific operations and troubleshooting technologies for key multicast areas such as IGMP, PIM Sparse Mode, multicast security and much more.
Developed by the industry’s most recognized Senior Technical Instructors, Editors, and Consultants, this new book series is sure to assist you in better understanding IPv4/IPv6 Multicast operations, troubleshooting methodologies, and time saving fault isolation techniques.
